literary criticism

The article deals with the nature of an anniversary article, a special genre of mass periodicals and journalese literary criticism of the late 19th – early 20th centuries/ The research is based on ample source material in a literary-critical and historical-literary vein. The introduction examines theoretical works devoted to various aspects of this genre, and formulates the research task – to identify additional characteristics and features of publications of this type.

The article deals with the problem of the genre, which is studied in the theoretical-critical and historicalliterary aspects. The results of the comparative typological analysis of texts containing judgments about the future of literature give ground to talk about the literary forecast as an independent genre and thus update the existing classifications. The genre carriers are the topic, problems, tasks of the critic, as well as the structure of the text, the image of the literature.

The measures of professionalism of a critic is determined by the ability to assess the object of his observation, based on its internal properties and the vital demands of society. In particular, media criticism is an biased interpretation of the concrete results of the work of the mass media in terms of emerging ideas about the proper quality of journalistic work. According to the rules of the genre, a dramatic script is laid down in a media-critical utterance.